Pratyoush Onta (30 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. vii, 290p, figures.

Condition: New. pp. 250.

Condition: New. pp. 145.

Condition: New. pp. 250.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 402p.

Condition: New. pp. 145.

Condition: New. x, 402 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: New. pp. 250.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Ed. xlii, 210p. Interviews with Lionel Caplan, Alan Macfarlane, davide Seddon, Micholas Allen, Michael Hutt, John Whelpton, David Gellner, T. Louise Brown, Rhoderick Chalmers, Mark Turin, and other British academics who have conducted research in Nepal.

Condition: New. pp. 145.

Condition: New. x, 402 pages First edition Includes bibliographical references and index.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: New. x, 402 pages.

Pp.259 - 464, notes, glossy blue journal wraps, a very good copy.

Condition: New. pp. xlii + 210, Abbreviation Acknowledgement.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages with reading wear throughout. Previous owner's name on title page. Wrappers have crease at spine, light edge wear and creasing at corner tips, and overall handling wear. Contents: Why studies in Nepali History and Society? Guneratne, The tax man cometh: the impact of revenue collection on subsistence strategies in Chitwan Tharu society. Onta, Creating a brave nation in British India: the rhetoric of Jati. Improvement, rediscovery of Bhanubhakta and the writing of Bir history. Subedi, Literary response to Panchayat utopia. Des Chene, Ethnography in the Janajati-yug: lessons from reading Rodhi and other Tamu writings. Onta-Bhatta, Street children: contested identities and universalizing categories. Liechty, Paying for modernity: women and the discourse of freedom in Kathmandu. Joshi, Diagnoses of the Nepali economy: a review of the analyses of economic liberalization policies in Nepal. Bhattachan, Teaching and learning process in social sciences at Tribhuvan University: a need to move from a boot-camp to a bazaar model. Books received. 8.5" tall; 258 pages.…

pbk. Contents. Editorial. In the name of Bikas/Mary des Chene. Articles. 1. Technologies of improvement locations of culture. American discourses of democracy and community development in Nepal/Tatsuro Fujikura. 2. Local benefits from hydro development/Bikash Pandey. 3. Naming ceremonies as rituals of development/Kamal Adhikary. 4. Kathmandu's garbage. simple solutions going to waste/Bhushan Tuladhar. 5. Planning for equity. ethical principles form Newar representations of finance/Katharine Rankin. Literature review. 1. The status of women in Nepal 15 years on/Shizu Upadhya. Commentary. Ta'Angzoum among the cows/Manjushree Thapa. Books received. 468 pp.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 238 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: New. pp. 255-487. Articles on children's songs, political oinion polls, Khagendra Sangroula: voice of opposition, towns and rural development, press censorship under King Gyanendra, and Nepali writings in English.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 226 pages. Articles on education in Nepal: "University in Biratnagar during Panchayat Era;" "Hindu School in a Secular State;" "Free Float Internet Policies;" "Positive Deviance and Public School Success;" and "Gangs and Gangsters: Identity and Representation.".

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 189p. Articles on organic farming, Tamangs, civil society, ethics and pharmaceutical regulation, etc.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 209 pages. Articles on Madhes and the Nepali state, reading Maoist memoirs, corporate friendly Nepali daiies, rural reporting, reading historical texts from south Asia, failed constitution writing process, locating place in Samrat Upadhyay's fiction, and Mawdudi's Islamic revivalist ideology.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 205 pages. Articles on foreignness in modern Nepal, Balkrishna Sama and Nepali Identity, women's rights?, Bikas as rhetoric; foreign aid as a problem for Nepal, writers in the People's Movement, and parties and political integrity.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Interpreting democracy: ethnic politics and democracy in the Eastern Himalaya/Mona Chettri. 2. A Young person's guide to the cultural heritage of the Kathmandu Valley: the song Kaula Kachala and its video/Ingemar Grandin. 3. Remarriage, adultery and reproduction in ancient Nepal/Diwakar Acharya. 4. Nepal: inclusive democracy and political parties/ Krishna Hachhethu. Commentary. 6. Occupy Baluwatar: a reflection/Pranika Koyu and Astha Sharma Pokharel. Book Reviews.…

pbk. Contents. Articles. Special Theme. Nepali Banaras. 1. Nepali Kings and Kasi. On the changing significance of a sacred centre/Martin Gaenszle. 2. Pandits and pulp fiction. Pandits and pulp fiction. popular publishing and the birth of Nepali print capitalism in Banaras/Rhoderick Chalmers. 3. The everyday life of American development in Nepal/Heather Hindman. 4. Capsular promise as public health. a critique of the Nepal National Vitamin a Programme/Ian Harper. Commentary. 1. Nonsense narrative. an abstract history/Manjushree Thapa. One article is in Hindi. 222 pp. figs (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback in good condition. Cover edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Reading crease noted front side. Page block is lightly blemished. Open Society Foundation stamp to half-title page. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Softcover. 228 p. Very good condition. The reading pages are clean and unmarked. Slight signs of storage and wear. Otherwise a very good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.